Abe later worked for Dentsu Inc., the world's largest advertising agency, before marrying Shinzo Abe in 1987. She is popularly known as the "domestic opposition party" due to her outspoken views, which often contradict her husband's. Following her husband's first stint as prime minister, she opened an organic izakaya in the Kanda district of Tokyo, but is not active in management due to the urging of her mother-in-law.[2] The couple have no children, having undergone unsuccessful fertility treatments earlier in their marriage.[3]